Obligation to stay and presentation to the judicial police, in addition to the preventive seizure of almost half a million euros . These are the measures taken by the Gip of the Brescia court against seven people under investigation for fraud against small and medium-sized enterprises operating throughout the national territory.
The investigations started from the Postal Police of Crotone, where one of the victims filed a complaint, and it emerged that the fraudulent mechanism started through the use of e-mails and Pec apparently attributable to the main Italian banking institutions , used massively to promote false financing for the industry.
The companies were contacted to propose the possibility of accessing loan agreements for small and medium-sized enterprises guaranteed by Cassa Depositi e Prestiti. The only condition imposed for the disbursement of the money was the signing of an insurance policy , with payment of an initial single premium corresponding to 1.2% or 1.4% of the value of the disbursed sum. The payment of these bonuses actually flowed into foreign current accounts held by the associates.
Once the payment was made, at the time the transaction was completed and the loan agreement was signed, the suspects disappeared. An activity that, in a short time, would have allowed them to earn the sum of around 500,000 euros.
The execution of the measures made it possible to seize 20,000 euros in cash available to the suspects, probably proceeds of the criminal activity, as well as numerous credit cards and IT and telephone devices considered, by the investigators, instrumental assets for the commission of the crimes.
(Unioneonline/ss)